On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:55 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote:
> Hi All, Iam using pam_getenv in my PAM application. Can anyone please
> let me know should i free the memory pointed to const char in my
> application or its take care by libpam.
>
> I am bit confused. As per Documentation, it says the application
> should free it. Is that true. Please advice.
>
> buf = pam_getenv(pamh,"PRIMARY");
> if(buf != NULL && buf[0] != '\0' ) {
> if (strcmp(buf, "TRUE") == 0) {
> printf("success\n ");
> }
> }
>
> if (buf) {
> //free(buf); // is this reqd???
> }
No, it must not be be freed, the pointer is pointing to memory managed
by the pam library itself and freed on pam_end() call.
--
Tomas Mraz
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